A big thank you to Beth (Southern Belle) who suggested I try Vacation Rentals By Owners for lodging in Alaska. The funny thing is that we HAD rented a private cabin for our 20th wedding anniversary so we KNEW you could do this but never thought of it for vacations.
I quickly checked and there were lots of options in AK. I found a GREAT house -2200 sf/4 bdr/2 bath and the lady wouldn't let us stay because we had to many kids! WHAT? SHE Said it slept 8-10. Whatever. Many places are already taken but I did find a 3 bdr apartment and the lady is fine with our kids. She has three apartments side by side and said she is use to working with large families. I called Microtel - not a fancy hotel...and for us to stay it would be $190 per room per night...so the apartment with kitchen, more beds, one spot instead of two rooms....will be cheaper!
Better yet - I checked for TX and am mapping out more vacation spots for the future...but I STILL hate reserving tickets, rooms etc....it's just far to expensive for our family. LOL
I quickly checked and there were lots of options in AK. I found a GREAT house -2200 sf/4 bdr/2 bath and the lady wouldn't let us stay because we had to many kids! WHAT? SHE Said it slept 8-10. Whatever. Many places are already taken but I did find a 3 bdr apartment and the lady is fine with our kids. She has three apartments side by side and said she is use to working with large families. I called Microtel - not a fancy hotel...and for us to stay it would be $190 per room per night...so the apartment with kitchen, more beds, one spot instead of two rooms....will be cheaper!
Better yet - I checked for TX and am mapping out more vacation spots for the future...but I STILL hate reserving tickets, rooms etc....it's just far to expensive for our family. LOL
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I found a GREAT house -2200 sf/4 bdr/2 bath and the lady wouldn't let us stay because we had to many kids! WHAT? SHE Said it slept 8-10. Whatever.
DeEtta,
I am so sorry that she wasn't very accomodating. How disappointing but I am doing a happy dance that you found something for your family! It really is a TERRIFIC tool. Enjoy it!
Beth in GA
De'Etta, what a neat site! I bookmarked it too for our future family vacations. It took me a long time to find a campground that has a cabin large enough to accomodate us. An added bonus is that's owned and operated by Christians and modest one piece bathing suits are required at the pool.
We've used VRBO or something similar almost everytime we've gone to FL! It's GREAT! We had 3 families stay in the last condo for less than 1/2 of what it would have cost us to all stay in our own motel rooms.
PTL you found lodging!!
Woohoo! Can't wait to see y'all!
PTL for the lodging find.
l/p
Yep - will see Mom and Darshia both within a month or so.....
I spent some of my sleepless hours putting in Crescent City, Billings, Eugene, Florence, London, Budapest....just to see what I could find....
Great site! I will keep this as a reference for future vacation needs.
It is a GREAT site. I've had fun checking it out.
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